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Wild thing: rugged and untamed, affordable and uncrowded, Glacier National Park is full of surprise.

From: Sunset  |  Date: 7/1/2002  |  Author: Finnegan, Lora J.

GRIZZLY

The word echoed across the lobby of the Many Glacier Hotel as the hiker told her story. Her group was trekking to Iceberg Lake when a massive bear ambled onto the trail ahead, turned, then splashed into the lake and swam away. The sighting was, the hiker said, a thrill she would remember all her life.

* The encounter was a reminder that Glacier national park is nature with claws: bears roaming the backcountry, jagged mountains; frozen rivers cutting through rock.

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